EOC Stats

[Viper666]

Looks like aftyer many years EOC will be shutting down so sad many years I have followed my stats there, what site does everyone use no days,
thanks John
https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/

[JWhy]

Hi all,

I just sent this to Jason :

Hello Jason,

Just saw your message on F@h Stats

I wanted to let you know that your website is one of the ones I visit every day, several times a day!
It is an integral, indispensable, and virtually unmatched part of the Folding@home experience.

Would it be possible to tell me, or update the FAQ to write how much this system costs you monthly ?
And how much donation you're getting monthly (as an average) ?
It would help us to know if what some of us are giving is helping (and how much it's helping !)
So we could start donation drives if/when needed.

After all you have done all these years, it's the least we can do.

Thanks,
JWhy
For Alliance Francophone

[daiko]

I wanted to let you know that your website is one of the ones I visit every day, several times a day!
It is an integral, indispensable, and virtually unmatched part of the Folding@home experience.

Would it be possible to tell me, or update the FAQ to write how much this system costs you monthly ?

Totally agree that the site is important to many of the contributors here, providing information, enjoyment and additional motivation for teams and users. I believe its loss could eventually result in a significant loss of compute power for the project. I’ve sent Jason a few bucks on a couple of occasions, but I wonder if a Patreon or something similar would be a good way to continue supporting this ongoing resource for us. It’s clearly a labor of love project for him—t’would be nice if the foldingathome project itself could provide some support, or maybe integrate such functionality in its own site.

If you use his EOC site, maybe show Jason some support.

[BobWilliams757]

The news of this was posted on the discord forum by @toTOW, and a number of people are already looking into ways to keep the stats going somehow. Like others I feel they are part of the entire folding community, and he has put too much effort into it to see it go away.

I also suggested on the Discord channel that once we sort out how to keep things running maybe we should fold for his team for a period of time as a gesture of support for his long-term efforts.

[cloud7896]

There is an update:

You all are too much!07.25.25, 7:15pm CDT

First off, I want to say a HUGE thank you to every person that sent me a donation! I honestly wasn't expecting any, or even thinking about it yesterday, my mind was just kind of thinking like this was the time to start winding things down, but you guys proved me wrong. Likewise a HUGE thank you to every person that has emailed me, whether it's offering help or just words of support and encouragement, you guys don't know how much that means to me. I will reply to every email that I've received, just give me a little time, at first it was slow going, but I'm getting better with each reply, I think.

With that said, donations right now would cover till the end of the year if I didn't do anything. For everyone wondering, hosting (colocation) costs me $155 a month. As I've been telling everyone in my emails the server itself is over 15 years old. Between monthly cost, server age, and reduced traffic over the years, it's time to find something more modern and affordable. I briefly looked at some VPS and VDS (virtual private/dedicated server) hosting and I think I can confidently find one for under $50 a month that has the necessary specs for processing the stats in a timely fashion. So that's going to be a project for me this weekend to start researching reputable hosting companies and comparing prices and specs and whatnot. That is one possible route for us to go.

If you sent me an email but haven't heard back, don't worry (yet)! I've still got so many to reply to but it's getting late and I've had a long day. Tomorrow I'm going to power through the rest of them one way or another. Everyone has been giving me various ideas for things or offers of help, so I want to get through them all, and then we can formulate some plans and evaluate our full set of options.